Customer Reviews

Song of the Trees

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This is an excellent book to introduce Black history and literary techniques. The author paints vivid pictures of the scenery that are easily pictured in one's mind. She makes excellent use of similes and comparisons. When read aloud to children, they can easily draw pictures to illustrate the setting and the characters. It is an excellent springboard to discussion of Black history and American history during the Depression.

Although the book is very short it is still excellent and well written. The pictures and illustrations
make the book more interesting to follow.

The novella Song of the Trees is a dynamite little story. As a teacher I find that a lot of children of all races do not realize what the depression era was all about. Mildred Taylor presents wholesome heroes in the Logan family. She addresses tough topics such as racism and segregation in all her novels. The themes of bravery, family, and standing up for what is right are in this little story and in all of her stories. Mildred Taylor's books should be on every family's bookshelves.

Great little book! The continuing stories of the family is just wonderful. I wish all the kids in America could read about the Logan Family!

I really liked this book.It may be short,but it has a lot of action in it.I did'nt like it when Mr.Anderson threatened Big Ma in cutting down the trees.Ido'nt have much to write,but Iwant to tell all the readers that you have to read this book. IT'S AWSOME!!!!

I thought that this was a pretty good book and that I would recommend it to someone else. In this story there are these black people that own land thats a forest and these white people want to cut almost all the trees in the forest so they said that they would give them money but since they cut down more than theypaid for so one of the kids went to get there dad. he came back and set up dynimites all over and was going to kill himself and the lumber man if they didn't get out right then.

i think this is a verey excellent book for a young person to get an idea about racism and prejudice all at the same time an enjoyable novel.

I give Song of the Trees 3 1/2 stars because Song of the Trees needs more pages and a better ending. That would help the book. The good things are the author's tricks. They are imagery,accents and the way they make you feel like the character.

If you like realistic books you wil like this book because there is alot of racism. The part is Mr. Andersen forced Big Ma to cut down her trees and Big Ma didn't want to cut down the trees but she did because they said that if David will have a accident. I recomment this book because you will learn about what happened when your Grandmother was alive.

By Jamal

This was a very short story set in the depression time. It had a sad ending, though it was happy in a way too....but the trees wouldn't sing anymore.